Every Major Religion In Asia Explained

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Religion in East Asia is complicated. Most people will tell you that Asian countries like Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam are atheist, or Buddhist, or non affiliated, but religion in Asia is much more complex. This is every major religion in Asia explained in 14 minutes.
0:00 Intro
1:40 Japan
6:00 South Korea and North Korea
8:32 China and Taiwan
11:35 Indochina
12:56 Mongolia
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[@MonsieurDean]

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[@crusader2112]

Great video, very interesting. Quick question: Is it CCP or CPC?

[@MonsieurDean]

@@crusader2112 We say CCP to refer to the Chinese Communist Party.

[@crusader2112]

@@MonsieurDean Okay thanks. 👍 I've heard it used both ways. CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and CPC (Communist Party of China)

[@mingfanzhang8927]

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[@mingfanzhang4600]

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[@belstar1128]

I know some Cambodian people they insist that they are atheist but they are afraid to get too close to the forest because of the spirits .

[@dondog3123]

Believing in spiritual stuff is different than believing in god.

[@lazyboy300]

@@dondog3123 is it though? it all the supernatural. all the things that only exist to those who believe in them thru faith. whether its monotheist god, polytheist gods, spirits, ghosts, "forces" or any other entities that exist outside the material world, outside of science, outside of what can be proven to anyone despite faith, it doesn't matter. atheism is the absence of belief in supernatural beings or entities or deities or whatever

[@greatwolf5372]

​@dondog3123 God is a "spiritual stuff"

[@getoutofherestranger]

@@greatwolf5372 God is a creator deity.

[@poofyploof5107]

@@greatwolf5372 Spiritual stuff according to abrahamic religions, especially christianity

[@hishamalaker491]

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[@MonsieurDean]

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[@smortv9629]

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[@MrShoulder]

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[@ferrothorn9022]

alternate history to politics to information

[@crusader2112]

Nice pfp. 👍

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

Idk why but lately I have taken an Ungern-Von Sternberg path of getting interested in nomadic and steppe life, both Mongolic and Turkic so this video was a Godsend thanks Z

[@MonsieurDean]

Neo-Mongolian Empire Soon?

[@crusader2112]

The Baron was very Based and so was his acquaintance Pyotr Wrangel.

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

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[@Berserker3624]

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[@hokkaidosnow6643]

One of the best explanations of Shinto, especially not making the mistake of translating 神(kami) as "gods". I live in Japan and often see people pray at shrines at night. So to some extent, it seems some believe in it literally.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Yeah i always call bullshit when they say asia is atheist

[@rodrigoe.gordillo2617]

But China is atheist ​@@NeostormXLMAX

[@rutvikrs]

That is exactly how we Hindus view it too. We don't expect to physically see an elephant headed Ganesha up there or even descend down here. Their representation through idols is however holy to the point that we see it as a physical intermediary but not the God him/herself. To confuse you further, Id be classified as an atheist in the west due my core beliefs. It's like you have taken my weekly sales report in Excel and sorted all the entries based on the third digit.

[@Fgh56-eq9pp]

Từ đó 神 ( thần )

[@tc2334]

It becomes more confusing when considering the character 神 literally means god in Chinese.

[@Highlander_Red]

I would just like to clarify that you skipped over the Philippines. I don’t care much if it is mentioned in length or not. But I do find it important to tell the viewers that the Philippines is the only predominantly Catholic nation in Asia. At least 80% of the population is Catholic, another 10% adhering to the Islamic minority in the south, and the remaining 10% typically being atheist or adhering to another religion. Because most people I’d meet online (typically westerners), didn’t even know the Philippines was mostly Catholic. And just thought I was Muslim like the Malays and Indonesians. To which I don’t find it offensive, but I feel as if the distinction has to be maintained.

[@Scott-if3ce]

I live in Japan and practice Shinto. Its definitely going strong and plays a large part on the culture and thinking of Japan. I think that was a good brief explanation of the religion

[@MonsieurDean]

Have any extra insight? I'd personally like to hear more.

[@Scott-if3ce]

@@MonsieurDean I'm still learning about the faith, but a few beliefs in Shinto are kotodama (言霊), which is like power of words and everything from trees, the ocean, mountain, rocks, animals, and people can or have souls. For the first idea, from the mythos in books like the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, it is sometimes said in the age of the kami, the kami spoke in the language of kotodama. However most people don't consider the myths to be literal but stories, although still believe in the kami of these myths. While kotodama, is the idea where if I say "oh try not to fall down" while you're studying for exam, then you might believe that because I said the word "fall" then there's a chance you might fail your exam. And the saying of the words, might make it a reality. For everything can or having a soul. As you mentioned, many things can have a soul from living things like plants, animals, humans, and kami. But even things like rocks, a chair or tool gaining a soul. There's even a youkai called tsukumogami 付喪神 where after becoming 100 years old, the object gains a soul and becomes sentient. So from this idea, you should always take care of your things. Of course, since it's good to treat things with respect and not break them, or keep them clean, but what if they come to life and remember how you treated them? If you treat them well, then they might appreciate you for it. If not, they might get angry with you. This idea also carries to food as well. In a situation where you can't eat all your food, and there's two foods left, rice and meat. Which do you pick? Japanese would always choose to eat the rice, since it's believed each grain of rice has its own soul or kami, while the meat is only a part of the one soul/kami that was killed for you to eat. So eating the rice would be less wasteful since less souls/kami were wasted so you can eat and live. There's other ideas too, like the importance of showing respect (like the steps to visit a shrine/Jinja, to talk to the kami, to others in society, or to anything), new year shrine visit for hatsumoude and shougatsu 初詣 / 正月 (I've done it and even made my own osechi おせち) , kamidana 神棚 (personal household altars, I have one btw), Omamori (have several) and other amulets offered at shrines, the idea of spiritual purity, musubi (like universal energy), or how kami are born from the universe, different spiritual realms, and how after you die technically everyone becomes a kami. Although, many Japanese would say Shinto is not a religion, many would argue it's just culture, but those we would say who are spiritual would believe in it like a religion. Even my friend once said "I'm not religious but if I had to choose then I would say Shinto". While my gf and her family believes in Shinto and kami. So depends on the person. Sorry this comment is so long, but if there is anything else you would like to know, feel free to ask.

[@igorlopes7589]

​@@Scott-if3ceAre the souls of trees, oceans, mountains and rocks considered kamis? Or are the kami more transcendent spirits that are in charge of nature?

[@Scott-if3ce]

@@igorlopes7589 The souls of the trees, rocks, ocean, and mountains are also kami. The word kami is bit vague, the closest meaning could be "something you venerate" but can loosely mean spirit. Using the word soul there be a bit misleading, but a spirit and soul are pretty similar I think. But to answer your question, yes they can also be kami. For example, at many shrines there are scared trees and rocks that which are tied with shimenawa (scared rope). These trees and rocks can be the kami themselves or can be vessel to house a kami. For example, the grand champion of sumo, are considered living vessels that can house the kami. Or mountains like mount Fuji are directly worshiped as kami and have their own shrines. These kami are not always associated with ideas, but simply are kami of the local area. Edit: To answer your second question. Some kami are god-like living in the heavenly plain, some are associated parts of nature (for example kuraokami, a dragon-god/kami that controls snow) while others are kami of the local land who protect it. Or your ancestors are kami who watch over you. So it depends on the kami

[@igorlopes7589]

@@Scott-if3ce Thanks

[@chloewilkinson7863]

Would love to see you do a video of the minor religions of the Middle East like Druzes, Smartarians, and Zoroastrianism

[@MonsieurDean]

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[@schalitz1]

Awesome video, I recently read a book about Shintoism, and I'm currently reading the Analects, by Confucius.

[@labnab6764]

Even in Kazakhstan, a fairly sunni Muslim country we still have some tengrist things, like believing in spirits of ancestors looking over us etc

Nah you guys are Arab bootlickers whereas Chuvash Russians among other Turkic people are those who have a spine

[@Chatgbt221]

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[@MonsieurDean]

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[@Legendary9000]

The thing I like about asians is they are open to new ideas and belief systems.

[@SexyBeautifulBabe]

EAST Asians

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

Here when 17k views. That's been a hole in my understanding since 6th grade and it would be definitely interesting to fill

[@MonsieurDean]

Glad I could help! :)

[@cjvoerman5591]

This is a great video. My grandfather in Hong Kong was an ancestor worshipper, so it’s nice to know an official term for it.

[@dolphin550]

This was a really interesting video! I enjoyed how you comprehensively explained a majority of the religions present in (mostly Eastern Asia). I especially liked how you explained how religion is viewed in (Eastern) Asia. However, there are a few smaller questions I do want to ask: - Why did you use the term "Shendaoism" rather than "Chinese folk religion" or "Shenism?" - What about Caodaism and Catholicism (in Vietnam)? - Is Confucianism considered a religion or is much more a philosophical ideology?

[@MonsieurDean]

-"Shendaoism" was a term I found used to refer to the Chinese folk religion most frequently aside from just "Chinese folk religion". I should have specified the ambiguity surrounding the precise terminology. -Catholicism would have been worth a mention, and by extension Caodaism, given its ties to Catholicism, but I neglected to mention them on account of their much smaller numbers. -This is a subject of debate, though I'd personally consider it more of a philosophy.

[@jeremias-serus]

Confucianism itself is certainly not a religion as far as beliefs go, however throughout history Chinese paganism and Confucianism were highly linked.

[@MapShiba]

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[@MonsieurDean]

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[@MrShoulder]

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[@MonsieurDean]

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[@ExPatinUK]

Great vid. Ignore the haters. They can start their own channels.

[@hellooukittyy]

Well in northeast india, people here are ethnically Chinese, tibetan or like thai etc, they are basically migrated from these places, and Here now majority of them follow Christianity along with indigenous religions like DONYI PO:LO 🎌 etc, also buddhism is followed here! the sixth dalai lama was from here! Tawang monastery is the second largest Buddhist monastery in the world!

[@ShivanshuTyagi72981]

I never knew North East has its own indigenous religions. I love the Manipuri style weddings, although primarily Hindu. Mizoram is Christian, not sure about Meghalaya as it is kinda multi-religious. Please inform me about the religions of Nagaland, Arunachal and Sikkim

[@ishanbajpai6940]

Northeast Indians are not ethnically Chinese, they are Tai or southeast Asian but not Han.

[@hellooukittyy]

@@ishanbajpai6940 chinese doesn't include only han for ur kind information, among the 56 ethnic groups of China, some ethnic groups living in India also recognised in China

[@ishanbajpai6940]

@@hellooukittyy I know but the overwhelming majority is Han Chinese, about 90% and they are actual Chinese rest of other ethnic groups who are assimilated in Chinese ethnicity. By your logic, All the hindered of ethnic groups living in India are of Indian ethnicity including the northeast Indians. You see how that logic of Country= ethnicity would cut your logic.

[@hellooukittyy]

@@ishanbajpai6940 northeast people were never indian except some groups, they later migrated from China, Burma, Thai etc! So yes they are ethnically related to them, not with indians! Just because they live in India now, won't justify this! And when I say chinese ethnicity, it includes all the people who were actually from china's different different ethnic groups, but later migrated to different different places. And just because Han ethnic people have major population, doesn't mean that they are only Chinese! It's like as example calling marathi people, the only indian origin ethnic group, and rest are not

[@katamattyon]

Only a portion of Asia is covered, Asia starts at Anatolia

[@ousamadearu5960]

well, it is mostly muslim or Orthodox Christian, the same can be said with Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor Leste, and The Philippines.

[@darthdingus7439]

He made the distinction at the start, pointing out West Asia is mostly Islamic, South Asia Hindu. East Asia requires the most explaining, so that's what he focussed on.

[@katamattyon]

@@darthdingus7439 not made in the title though

[@numerals8939]

⁠@@darthdingus7439and the rest of southeast asian. Why is Indochina even there?

[@user-ct9mf4dr5o]

There is no genetic connection between Middle Easterners and Asians​@@katamattyon

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[@BlackSheepEntertainment9009]

Thank you so much for this video, now I know the religious beliefs to research.

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[@MonsieurDean]

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[@carpathianwolf3523]

Can you do a video about how each christian denomination influenced their respective regions?

[@ShimobeSama]

Wow, this was surprisingly accurate and informative. I didn't know you were this knowledgeable on Far Eastern stuff. Tbh I wasn't really that familiar with Shendao, since I think the ancestral religion predating Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism along the lines of what Shinto is in Japan is just called something like "Chinese folk religion" in English (where you can basically replace the word Chinese with some other ethnic group and find a localized and ethnicity-specific version of something roughly similar in certain key ways almost anywhere win the world), and I'm not sure if they really have a main name for it in Chinese other than just calquing the English if they have to describe it in the same terms, since it's largely ancestral, cultural, and ethnic-linked rather than thought of as a distinct school along the lines of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Christianity, etc.. I guess Shendao kind of works for that purpose as semi-coincidentally a calque of the Japanese word Shinto. (Interestingly, the word Hindu sounds vaguely similar to Shinto as just pure coincidence with no etymological relation whatsoever.) I think in Europe this would just be referred to as paganism derisively by Abrahamists, heathens by its own adherents (an even more derisive sounding word with a more Germanic-character to it than the Latin equivalent word pagan), or pre-Christian (ancestral) religion by me personally, or just mythology/folklore/etc. by people like Westerner Christians who want to denigrate it below Christianity but not too far while still appreciating certain aspects of it in terms of European heritage. What's interesting to imagine is how much more similar Europe would be to the Far East if the Greek philosophical traditions (with the great philosophers somewhat akin to Confucius, Laozi, etc.) had been allowed to remain dominant rather than having all non-Abrahamic thought either erxdxcated systematically (mostly the pagan stuff practiced by poor uneducated people) and/or finagled and redefined to conform to Abrahamic thought (mostly the higher-level stuff sophisticated and well-attested enough in the written record to be appreciated by urban intellectuals, etc.). As someone who grew up with one foot in the Far East and the West my whole life, I can almost imagine a world where without Abrahamism, Europe never would have given birth to something as cxncxrxxs as Marxism or dxvolved into this postmodern mxlticultural hxllhxle the West is today, and the overall mindset of Westerners would be much more similar to what Far Easterners are today, although the East is also being dragged down contantly due to the ironic dominance of self-defeating, short-term-focused mxlticultural postmodern capitalist/liberal materialism from the West which has happened to give the West a technological, economic, political, military, etc. advantage over the rest of the world which is now unfortunately culminating into its logical endpoint of systematic worldwide self-ethnocxde and the ruling class being captured by a woke algorithmic dxxth cxlt singulxrity slowly dragging the Far East down with them as punishment for adopting a lot of the same ideas and economically integrating so closely with the West. Additionally, I don't think the entire West Asian (Northwest and Southwest Asia [Europe and the Mideast]) and transcontinental Caucasian world would be constantly at wxr with itself, especially without the dxgxneracy, poverty, and vxxlxnce produced by... southern Abrahamism I'll say, and have ruling classes committed to self-ethnxcide and cxvxl wxr above all else.

[@ShivanshuTyagi72981]

The Pagan stuff is different. Most eastern religions focus on spirituality, primarily Indic. There Greeks just worshipped the Gods. East works on gratitude, west on fear. Although one may derive that Hindus worship cows, we do not. We just express gratitude. Same is the case with Japanese and Chinese religions. Buddhism is spiritual and introspective, so is Jainism. From what I have know, I derive the eastern religions just guide us to be better people.

[@ShimobeSama]

@@ShivanshuTyagi72981 How TF do you know that? Why are you just regurgitating Islxmic/Christian hate propaganda about European paganism? You've never heard of Stoicism, or Socrates or Plato or Aristotle?

[@asddw6957]

As a secondary civilization of Chinese culture, Japan's religions are modeled after those of China, and 80% of Japan's culture comes from China

[@ShimobeSama]

@@asddw6957 80% is a ridiculous number. One could just as easily say with the same level of thin-air confidence that 80% of China's culture was irreparably destroyed by Marxism, and so Japan and the Four Asian Tigers have preserved ancient and medieval Chinese culture better than China has. Closer to reality, it makes more sense to say Japanese culture is more or less something like: - 25% borrowed directly from ancient (mainly the Tang era and similar), - 25% directly borrowed from the West in a way that China has not (unless you count Marxism as "Western"), - another 25% indirectly borrowed by innovating upon the things borrowed from China and the West which in turn back-influences both of them (for example, most modern scientific vocabulary in standard Chinese is borrowed from Japanese calques of Western words for new, modern Western concepts; this means that most modernization or Westernization of China happened indirectly from the traditional right via filtering through pro-European [though temporarily anti-Western/anti-colonial during the Axis era] Japan or via the deconstructionist left via filtering through the anti-Western Soviet Union [which is way different from the pro-traditional-Europe Russian Federation]), - and the last 25% or more of Japanese culture is stuff they completely invented themselves from scratch regardless of any influence from China or the West. (There's a reason why the most globally influential modern pop culture outside the West comes from East Asia, and specifically Japan and Korea, not China [or even HK anymore now that it's controlled by anti-culture communists].) It also gets confusing when you incorporate Korea, since Japan got Buddhism from Korea who got it from China who got it from India (who got it from the Indo-European higher castes coming from the Eurasian Steppe), and lots of other things got filtered through Korea before reaching Japan, and Koreans made their own innovations on certain things and also invented some of their own things from scratch as well.

[@asddw6957]

@@ShimobeSama It's no use saying these things. Japan only preserves imitations of Chinese architecture. As the cradle of civilization, Chinese culture has not been interrupted. Japan is just a secondary civilization. You don't need to say so much. You can't change anything, and you're not an authoritative expert~

[@HunterGalvius]

I didn't expect ASMR from you lol

[@lmvr127]

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[@MonsieurDean]

Dude, they're genuinely pretty cool. 😁😁

[@familygash7500]

Couldn't North Korean Juche be considered to be a religion onto itself?

[@user-uo8gw2li2q]

Juche is more like a political philosophy. Basically and in an ultra-succinct way... North Korea under this philosophy says "fuck the rest of the world... I can manage on my own". Which is ironic considering that they live off humanitarian aid from other nations.

[@monster_madeline]

Once you start to get into it, philosophy, politics, and supernatural religions all belong to the same cluster of "meaning systems". So juche is a religion in the same way Islam is a political system.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@monster_madelineBut Islam has precedence of being both a legal system and having theocratic states built upon its teachings. Juche really doesn't

[@monster_madeline]

@@danielutriabrooks477 juche has both a political (marxist & maoist) and a religious (chendong, state Shinto) makeup

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@monster_madeline It's more akin to a cult of personality than anything else. We have to take into account that Kim Il-Sung admired Stalin, and also came into power when stalinism was at its strongest, so juche is just a more developed version of that

[@goawayddd9799]

I think the title should have been titled every major religion in east and southeast asia

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Asia is the birthplace of religion

[@firefly9838]

No. Jesus was.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

@@firefly9838 okay, I don't want to be dragged into an argument. So, please explain?

[@moder4228]

It’s not the birthplace of the concept of having a religion, that’s a ridiculous statement. Europe, Africa, Aboriginal Australia , Native Latin America, and literally everywhere else in the world has developed their own unique religions aswell. Saying that Asia is the birthplace of a concept, not even just a philosophical way of life, literally is so absurd that it can’t even be comprehended.

[@t.wcharles2171]

​@@firefly9838, and Jesus lived in Asia.

[@sleefy2343]

@@firefly9838China exist wayyy before Jesus was even born lmao

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I'm not in any way religious but occasionally I have watched programs like this which explore the history, divergence and parallels of certain religions. Very interesting.

[@susangoaway]

It's weird that ROK does the American christianity, meaning they do the circumcision thing, something that is not done anywhere else but in ROK and the US. Why?

[@MonsieurDean]

Really? That's nuts.

[@tridish7383]

After the Korean War, many American missionaries came and provided medical services.

[@shinfeinrozava9468]

It may sound strange, but circumcision in Korea is not done for religious reasons.

[@tridish7383]

@@shinfeinrozava9468 Although the Korean War ended 100 years ago, circumcision expanded due to the belief that it had medical benefits. Until fairly recently, some doctors performed circumcision. Currently, most people who have undergone circumcision in Korea are over the age of 30, and very few have had the surgery for religious reasons.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

Influence of American doctor. Contradict to popular belief influence of US on Korean deeper after Korean war.

[@cashninja12]

Why isn't south asia included? Many diverse religions there not just hindu

[@user-ct9mf4dr5o]

Indians are not Asians.

[@sodahead13fan]

Incredible timing I've recently become obsessed with tengrism and tantric buddism

[@MonsieurDean]

Monsieur Z delivers.

[@CompassStarArrow]

When you use the map of the ROC on the thumbnail (yes it's recognizable because of the weird China-Mongolia border, Tuva being part of Mongolia and also northern parts of Kachin state in Myanmar being shown as part of Yunnan, China) and mark some parts of India as part of Myanmar, then color Outer Manchuria as if it's a separate country:

[@Evonas4]

Youre reading my mind

[@MonsieurDean]

Who told you? 👀

[@gregoryturk1275]

Me

[@summit6440]

Title should be every major religion in east Asia

[@WastedBananas]

nah its fine

[@SexyBeautifulBabe]

@@WastedBananasno it’s not .. Asian isn’t a race

[@user-ct9mf4dr5o]

​@@SexyBeautifulBabe If we follow your logic, Europe can be considered part of Asia. Also, Asians are a race, unless you believe that Japanese is the same as Arab😆

[@michealbrennan8107]

Finally i’ve never understood asian religions

[@MonsieurDean]

It's definitely a very misunderstood subject!

[@paytonturner1421]

And I bet people in Asian religions don't understand the abrahamic face.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@paytonturner1421 Not really, as most of them either have experience with it or know about someone who follows one of them

[@paytonturner1421]

@@danielutriabrooks477 I'm just staying it's just a point of perspective. People in my do not understand your fate and you might not understand theirs.

[@chimeremnmaozioko17]

​@paytonturner1421 I do hope you realise that the Middle East is in Asia. Therefore Abrahamic faiths are Asian religions

[@TheStickCollector]

Finally. I can understand them and if i go to Japan see what being Shinto can be like

[@oxuanhieu7452]

I'm Vietnamese.. basically I'm relatively satisfied with what you describe about "Dao Luongism"/"Motherism""..but you basically only describe less than 10%..however..I respect that effort your efforts as a person to be friendly to Vietnamese culture.."Dao Luongism"/"Motherism" are listed in the population structure as "atheists" accounting for about 80% of the total population..basically..thanks to this religion..the Vietnamese have not been assimilated with the Chinese..thank for my ancestors..Every time the Chinese want to brainwash the Vietnamese about a certain argument..the Vietnamese mind will naturally think of a way to resist.."Vietnamese five-color flags" [wikipedia] is the symbol you associate with "Luongism"/"Motherism"..I don't object to that..after all..only Vietnamese people use this flag..welcome to Vietnam [The distinction between "Luongism" and "Motherism" in Vietnamese society is not clear..Most Vietnamese residents share worship areas of both religions in the same sacred place of worship..The recognition of "Motherism" as a major religion since 2016 comes from management issues at the academic and state levels..in the soul of every Vietnamese person..both are the names of religions can basically be considered a general concept]

[@SuhbanIo]

yes, that is all of Asia

[@Yongkhkhap]

Many similarities to dharmic religions 😊

[@RealMajora]

Ha, I was just talking about the misconception of atheism in East Asia a few days ago. Nice vid.

[@MonsieurDean]

Thanks, pal.

[@irispaiva]

Considering you included a small chunk of russia, i thought you were going to talk about the sakha or something

[@danielutriabrooks477]

Most sakha are orthodox christians

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

He also included Tuva as part of Mongolia.

[@dckatyx9577]

“The answer is more complicated than it seems.” So they are Confusionists?

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

7:12 i was wondering where is confucianism and the same time this come😂

[@imaXenoX]

What religion are you ?

[@user-ct9mf4dr5o]

Communism, he has a video in his channel which he sanctifies Stalin ​@@imaXenoX

[@Trastage]

Dharmic religions don't rely on any specific community. Hindu gods, customs, and principles are followed in Eastern Asia, and some people in India who have different cultural beliefs might still identify as Hindu. These religions focus more on values than on belonging to a particular group. So, it's clearer to consider Dharmic religions as one religion rather than a category.

[@Tenisinspector8341]

This isn’t Asia rather East Asia. Do people unironically think that Asia=East Asia?

[@SayakatheSnoo]

They talked about the other Asian regions in the beginning of the video...

[@cb8655]

Only if they’re uneducated…

[@BornKafir]

In America, they're taught to refer to East Asians as 'Asians'. It's mostly American ignorance and racist arrogance.

[@user-ct9mf4dr5o]

​@@BornKafir Or maybe because the term “Asian” is meaningless, I see more white people hanging out with Asians than Arabs hanging out with the rest of their “Asian brothers and sisters”

[@adurpandya2742]

There are some misconceptions about Hinduism. 1. Its not a single religion. 2. Most forms of it are fairly similar to the mix of Chinese folk religion/Taoism/Buddhism or Shinto/Buddhism that are predominant. The difference is largely that they developed in opposite orders.

[@frank6587]

Why didn't you mention ROK's Moonies or China's Falun Gong ?

[@randomguy6152]

me and all my homies are tengri

[@PotatoBearRawr]

In Korea, confucianism is not seen as a remnant of Chinese colonial or semi-colonial influence? Is the significant difference between Korea and Japan not, how Korea was occupied/colonised in periods, and therefore had foreign influence forced upon them, while Japan could themselves choose how to take in foreign influence? Also seen in how North and South Korea were both more open to European ideological influence in the 20th century, while Japan was for the first time in history truly forced to accept outside interference after WW2? However, I am worried that I am might just be copying a perspective of mainly Belgium and Poland onto Korea, as it looks sort of like that to a European (a strong nation, unfortunately stuck between great powers). And this experience of foreign domination changes a country (from growing up in Denmark to living in Latvian, you can clearly sense the difference between being lucky and unlucky through history).

[@tridish7383]

우리는 모두 살짝 파시스트이므로 한국이 오랫동안 중국의 반식민지였다는 사실을 약간 거부한다. 남과 북에서 조금 다르지만, 우리는 유교를 중국 것으로 생각하기보다는 그냥 봉건제 풍습 정도로 여긴다. 실제로 유교는 많은 부분 토착화되었고, 지금은 중국이 자신들의 국가무신론 정책으로 파괴한 유교를 복원하기 위해서 남한에서 역수입한다. We're all a little bit fascist, so we're a little bit in denial about the fact that Korea was a semi-colony of China for a long time. Although it is slightly different in the South and North, we do not think of Confucianism as a Chinese thing, but rather just a feudal custom. In fact, much of Confucianism has been indigenousized, and now China is importing it from South Korea to restore Confucianism, which it destroyed through its national atheist policy.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

Confucianism is kinda big in Japan during edo era become main philosophy along with shintoism and Buddhism.

[@ariyune7007]

No mention of catholicism in Vietnam?

[@danielutriabrooks477]

The video is mostly about the religions that originated in the region

[@enkhzayazundui1063]

We Mongols pretty mixed our Tengri beliefs with Buddhist teaching. People do carry both .

[@funkyboy_22]

Why was the Philippines excluded from this video?

[@MonsieurDean]

I should have included it.

[@CamdenKnightly]

They’re a lame nation

[@SquallLeonhartlo]

I'd like to point out that you got Japan a bit backwards. For about 1000 years, Buddhism slowly assimilated Shinto, to the point that many Shinto shrines were on the property of Buddhist temples and/or run by Buddhist monks. The governments of Japan increasingly gave land, money, and power to Buddhist institutions, even at the expense of Shinto ones. The Meiji restoration emerged during a period of heightened nationalism, when the motto was "expel the foreigners, revere the emperor." The early Meiji government saw Buddhism as a foreign faith and forcibly separated Buddhism and Shinto, something still enforced today. Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, with few exceptions, could no longer be run by the same people or part of the same property, and state sponsorship for Buddhism fell dramatically. Shinto, being the native religion of Japan and the source of the emperor's claim to legitimacy, was elevated. Buddhism was only really revived when they rode the wave of nationalism leading up to WWII.

[@PMC_Schicksal]

Im Vietnamese, and tbh Mahayana Buddhism had a big influence in our country, you should've mention it too.

[@helloxo666]

I wonder why Shinto hasn’t been exported to other countries

[@MonsieurDean]

It's probably too Japan-specific.

[@sampatton146]

I read somewhere that there is a Shinto temple in Seattle, Washington. Don’t know if it’s true or not.

[@helloxo666]

@@sampatton146 there is one!!! But I think like there should be 350,000 more built ❤️

[@tridish7383]

That's Japan's fault. Shinto temples in Korea and China were all completely destroyed after World War II due to their connection to war crimes.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

Japan actually export shinto to their colonies like korea, taiwan, and South Pacific.

[@DomainofKnowlegdia]

Is Tokyo treat suitable for vegetarians who dont eat meat.

[@MonsieurDean]

I would check their website for that!

[@IFRYRCE]

Didnt mention the Unification Church? Missed opportunity imo. Thats a big part of religion and politics both in Japan and S.K. Shinzo's assassin did it because of unification church drama.

[@lightgreen3479]

They don't have many followers and they aren't the "traditional religion" anywhere since they're relatively new compared to the rest. That's probably why.

[@greener2497]

@@lightgreen3479 they give off massive "cult" vibe tbh. I wouldn't consider anything that drags families into bankruptcy a religion or faith, just nope

[@lightgreen3479]

@@greener2497 It's pretty much just a money-making scheme. Maybe the founder actually believed the nonsense he was spreading, but I wouldn't be suprised if nobody nowadays still actually believes in it, except for the victims of course.

[@tridish7383]

헛소리하지마.I am Korean and have lived in Korea for 25 years, but I have never seen a Unification Church member.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

They are new religion movements.

[@DamonNomad82]

Religion in Asia? I'm more interested in the statistics about the Youth in Asia...

[@DanDaFreakinMan]

We Thai also have some folk religion... sort of. It's more like a huge collection of folk beliefs and myths and superstitions.

[@asmrjackunboxinggames4328]

What happened to the Philippines, Korea, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Malaysia is so SAD...

[@greatwolf5372]

I think the inhabitants of those countries feel perfectly fine

[@cb8655]

Asia also includes North (parts of Russia) Central Asia (the “stan” countries), and South Asia (think of India)… points for including Southeast Asia at least. Most of Russia, Kazakhstan, countries with Muslim majorities have significant minorities of Eastern/Orthodox Christians. The religion has its roots in West Asia/the Middle East, so it’s curious that you don’t include that region. Something to consider.

[@Mr-6666]

You forgot shamanism in laos

[@subhamraj5365]

Video was pretty informative :) Can you do one for Indian Subcontinent as wellxbecause Hinduism doesn't cover most of it

[@infoprod7731]

Almost all Koreans are more mixed. We usually do some Buddist, Confucian, Christian at the same time Aside that Protestants and Catholics are the biggest majority that have serious opinions in religion

[@fresholiveoil6490]

What if Switzerland united Germany?

[@MonsieurDean]

I'd recommend checking out our alternate history channel: www.youtube.com/@DeanMonsieur

[@kyleogrady9830]

What’d you do with the Philippines bro?

[@MonsieurDean]

I ate it.

[@SexyBeautifulBabe]

Or india and the rest of South Asia

[@brandonmanuel2842]

I am an ex-Christian because the Bible and church attendance did not help me get closer to Jesus. I have my own version of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. I got sick and tired of lunatic televangelists begging for people's hard earned money and psycho prophets trying to predict the future.

[@chimeremnmaozioko17]

1. Your first fault is thinking televangelists represented Christianity. 2. So you made your own religion and you don't see a problem?

[@brandonmanuel2842]

@@chimeremnmaozioko17 Those televangelists and a psycho pastor DESTROYED my faith in God. Us Weekly magazines are my holy books. There are 10 gorgeous women from the red carpet section from the magazines. I chant their names and say my prayers with my Buddhist prayer beads. I was trying to get fed the Word but the televangelists poisoned my mind and spirit so bad that I developed mental health issues: depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety. I tried reading the Bible numerous times but failed. I just don't see how reading the Bible gets me closer to Jesus. Chanting the gorgeous women from Us Weekly magazines helps me get closer to God. Have a blessed day.

[@chimeremnmaozioko17]

@brandonmanuel2842 honestly, I don't think the televangelist were the problem. And that's saying something.

[@conho4898]

not many people call it dao luong tbh... but if you're gonna make a word for it, just write it as Daoluongism.

[@HassanUmer]

Should have written East Asia lol

[@andrewzhang9748]

Chinese never use Shendao to describe Chinese folk religion.

[@xiuhcoatl4830]

Because that's a modern term, they simply referred to the religious practices of their ancesters

[@andrewzhang9748]

​@@xiuhcoatl4830 I knew and I am Chinese. I mean we don't use this word to describe ". Shendao 神道 in Chinese is used to describe Japanese Shintoism (they are same hanzi/kanji). Actually we even don't use any word to describe in normal. What's more, a Chinese may believe in both buddhism and taoism.

[@duckpotat9818]

Who could’ve guessed an Indian/Nepali religion would be so influential

[@sheevpalps3846]

Anyone who’s known Asian history lol

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

@@sheevpalps3846 Right? How is this surprising? 😭

[@WastedBananas]

indians aren't asian@@sheevpalps3846

[@SexyBeautifulBabe]

@@WastedBananasIndians are Asians 🥰

[@WastedBananas]

@@SexyBeautifulBabe if they're asian why don't they look asian? I can tell you have low IQ

[@tokyoyung215]

Disappointed in how Maritime SE Asia is being left out in this. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines, East Timor, and Papua )

[@mimorisenpai8540]

Mostly Abrahamic sphere

[@ExistentialDodo]

title should say east asia not asia, when your excluding half of asia

[@floop5536]

can you do one for pagan faiths among europeans?

[@Scott-if3ce]

I heard the pagan religions are making a comeback like Ásatrúarfélagið in Iceland or Druidism/Celtic Paganism

[@danielutriabrooks477]

Most are either extremely small or just an ethnic larp

[@CamdenKnightly]

@@danielutriabrooks477there is the mari-el in Russia that is super genuine

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@CamdenKnightly The Realm of the Great God of Light? Yes, I've heard about them

[@CamdenKnightly]

@@danielutriabrooks477 never heard of them referred to as that before. I know they have like 140 gods and like 50,000-150,000 practitioners depending on the Russian census. Finno-urgic peoples so technically Europeans

[@varsha9546]

i think India is also asian country, but west don't consider india is asian country, even some of asian countries people also don't consider india is asian country, just bcz we looks different .........😢😢😢

[@Neverdyingpride]

you guys get categorized with muslims and jews

[@Wolfnacht]

That's why Monsieur Z uses the term "east Asia". Also, you're culturally and genetically quite different than your neighbors in the North and in the East.

[@greatwolf5372]

Asia is a meaningless term anyway. It's a too big and diverse to be grouped together as one.

[@ZalamaTheDragonGod]

Nice thumbnail of greater china

[@ZalamaTheDragonGod]

Integration: how exotic is your culture in America? Normalized? You've integrated.

[@K42U]

Filipinos: How about us? We're predominantly Christians.

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

3:20 Using the Qing borders is very based indeed

[@alfharizi2209]

What asia your talk about?

[@user-uo8gw2li2q]

Let me understand, North Koreans follow the traditional Korean religion, while many South Koreans follow Christianity and Atheism... I think North Koreans (at least government officials) must see South Korea as a "decadent place that abandoned our traditions"

[@MonsieurDean]

Probably.

[@heycodex]

interestingly North Korea (or at that time the northern side of korea) was much more christian than the south

[@oxuanhieu7452]

During a random debate about the founding date of North Korea with a North Korean living at the embassy in Hanoi..I received the answer...As far as I know..there are many different ethnic groups in one country..basically..the world considers the Korean peninsula as one country with two systems but actually North Korea and South Korea are two region and was ruled by two different peoples..According to history..the ancestors of North-Korea were Choson people.. and the South-Korean territory currently belongs to 3 different ethnic groups..If my opinion offends to the people of the Korean peninsula..I'm very sorry..anyway..I'm just an outsider.

[@tridish7383]

In South Korea, Cheondoism leaders were punished. This is because they first went against tradition, borrowed elements of Shinto, and collaborated with the war crimes of the Japanese Empire. Such an assessment is unjustified, as other traditional religions, including indigenous Confucianism and Buddhism, are better preserved in South Korea.

[@completetotalgoodness4786]

Does he mention Jains/Jainism?

[@teejayman215]

Where is the rest of Asia on the map when most asian religions came from the other side of Asia...

[@oxishimaruxo]

I live in Nagasaki Prefecture in Kyushu, and West Japan does have a long history of Christianity mainly Catholicism there's plenty of churches in Nagasaki and Fukuoka

[@user-xo6we7gc9e]

日本全国を基準にすれば⛪️がかなり少ないしキリスト信者もあんまりなかった。何よりクリスマスは祝日で休みではないことが日本はキリスト国家ではないこと

[@edgarang]

Only in Indonesia that Confucianism is legally regarded as a religion.

[@bakutanexpert8012]

Chinese here, this is the first time ever that I heard about the word “Shendao”. The vast majority of Chinese people do not have a religious belief, at least not in the conventional sense of devotion to a certain deity/deities. Most may have some sort of spiritual beliefs, but they aren’t necessarily theistic in nature. Chinese people can range from atheism to full blown devotion to gods, and I would say most are somewhere in the middle leaning to the atheistic side, I believe you can call them agnostic. People just generally have a very relaxed view on the divine. People may call themselves atheists but they won’t hesitate to visit temples and pray when they face troubles in life. The general view is:” if you believe then it exists, if you don’t then it doesn’t”

[@MonsieurDean]

What is the name for this form of spiritualism? "Shendao" was the term I came across while researching.

[@MonsieurDean]

I also came across the term "Shenism".

[@bakutanexpert8012]

@@MonsieurDeanwe usually just call it 民间习俗 (folk tradition), and it has a broad range of beliefs and activities. There is no clear definition as to what it encompasses. For example, ancestor veneration is widely practiced, but the meaning it gives to people can range from just simply paying respect to those who came before (majority share this belief) to actually believing that the ancestors will bless you. Moreover, this practice is done by both atheists and theists alike, so the line between religious (if u consider that a religious practice) and non-religious is very blurred.

[@MonsieurDean]

Fascinating.

[@Neverdyingpride]

tenger (sky)is the father

[@jeffreysommer3292]

Taoism is pronounced "Daoism."

[@johnmeynardbautista1937]

Dude forgot the Philippines which is the only Christian dominated asian country btw.

[@Pedrotheporcupine]

You have a nice voice

[@MonsieurDean]

This voice was made for radio. 📻

[@user-DontYouDare]

That Tibetan Buddhism really destroyed Mongols

[@EPICoutcast24]

No Cao dai? :(

[@junweihe8229]

there's no such thing as Shendaoism in China we're primarily atheists with Buddist and folk religion influences

[@dulio12385]

Damn, the atheism sign looks like a bad rip-off of the Federation and System Alliance logo.

[@anthonyfratta4881]

No hate. I love your stuff, but it looks like the advertiser suggested this vidio. Lol

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Considering how you included the philosophy of Confucianism, why did you not also include Juche?